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2014 Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee: Sarunas Marciulionis

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Sarunas Marciulionis won three Olympic medals with two different nations and played seven seasons in the NBA. Friday, the Lithuanian shooting guard will be enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. (Sam Morris/Associated Press)

All week, MassLive will take a closer look at the 10 inductees that will join the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2014.

The first player born in the Soviet Union ever to come to the NBA, Sarunas Marciulionis' career spans a fascinating era of both basketball and geopolitics.

The Lithuanian shooting guard won a gold medal with the USSR basketball team in Seoul in the 1988 Summer Olympics, then came to the NBA where he provided a spark off the bench for Don Nelson's high-scoring "Run TMC" Warriors featuring Chris Mullin, Tim Hardaway and 2014 Hall of Fame inductee Mitch Richmond.

In 1992, Marciulionis enlisted the help of the Grateful Dead to raise funds to send the Lithuanian basketball team to Barcelona for the Summer Olympics, where the team won bronze.

To learn more about Marciulionis' career, scroll through the dots on the image.